Taro Milk Tea
With a bright purple hue, taro milk tea tastes as creamy and delicious as it looks! This sweet bubble tea is flavored with green tea, taro root, and tapioca pearls in a brown sugar syrup.
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time10 minutes mins
Cooling Time30 minutes mins
Total Time55 minutes mins
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Asian
Diet: Gluten Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Servings: 2 glasses
Calories: 217kcal
Simmer 2 cups of water, remove from the heat and add the tea bags and allow to steep for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bags and allow the tea to come to room temperature.
While the tea is cooling bring a small pot of water to a boil, add the tapioca pearls reduce heat and simmer for 5-6 minutes.
Strain the pearls, add to a small bowl and stir through the brown sugar. Set aside and allow to cool.
When the tea has come to room temperature add the taro powder, ube extract and milk, whisking until well combined.
Evenly divide the soaked tapioca pearls and syrup between two glasses.
Divide the ice between the glasses and top with the taro milk tea.
Serve immediately.
- Cook and soak the tapioca pearls when needed.
- Adding ice to the drink makes it lovely and chilled.
- Any sugar, maple syrup or honey can be used to sweeten this drink
- Any plant based milk will work in this recipe. Nutrition information calculated using unsweetened almond milk.
Serving: 1glass | Calories: 217kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Sodium: 94mg | Potassium: 161mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g